With Information Awareness Month, the Inbooks team wanted to make sure they were part of the blog particularly when IAM has, according to the website, grown into a collaborative event between various bodies within the records/archiving/information management community including:
- Records and Information Management Professionals Australasia (RIMPA)
- Australian Society of Archivists (ASA)
- National Archives of Australia (NAA)
- Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA), Institute for Information Management (IIM)
- Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)
- Public Records Office of Victoria (PROV)
When they read about the first few bodies above, the Inbookers begged me to tell our blog readers about books we have just for those that work in archiving. Seeing we love books from Facet Publishing, we thought why not!?
Here's a few titles you must have on your shelves for Information Awareness Month:
Things you need to know. The book is:
- A clearly structured approach to developments in archives and record keeping
- A timely reader that asks where the discipline has come from and where it must now go to remain professionally relevant in the 21st century.
The changes of the past few decades have occasioned a review of what it is that archives are doing as a discipline. These changes have come from several quarters: interdisciplinary engagement with the notion of the archive; technological developments, not least the advent of Web 2.0; and the information explosion and the growth of several allied disciplines, including records and information management. This timely reader asks where the discipline has come from and where it must now go to remain professionally relevant in the 21st century, by negotiating the complex boundaries and borders of the ‘state of the archive’, in terms of geographical borders and nationalities and disciplinary borders.
The book is divided into four primary sections covering the following key themes:
- defining archives
- shaping a discipline
- Archives 2.0: archives in society,
- archives in the information age: is there still a role for the archive professional?
ISBN 9781856046664 | Hardback | 256 pages | £49.95
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Archives: principles and practices
An authoritative handbook from an experienced archives professional. Divided into four main parts addressing the contextual, strategic, operational and practical issues associated with creating an archival institution, the text covers everything the archivist needs to know: establishing principles, policies and procedures; managing day-to-day operations; caring for different types of archival materials; enhancing outreach and public access; and ensuring the growth and sustainability of the institution and its services.
Whether an institution has a collections orientation or whether it is primarily responsible for managing institutional archives in conjunction with an organizational records management programme, those responsible for records and archives management in the establishment and operation of an archival facility need specialist practical guidance.
The key chapters are:
- understanding archives
- the social and cultural context of archives
- the legislative and organizational context of archives
- the professional context of archives management
- the theoretical framework for archives management
- establishing a policy-based framework
- managing resources
- ensuring physical protection
- acquiring archives
- appraisal of archives
- arrangement of archives
- processing archives
- describing archives
- providing reference services
- enhancing access
- ensuring sustainability
ISBN 9781856046732 | Hardback | 256 pages | £44.95
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